Repairing a Cattle Grid

[Webs33]

Hi guys, I'm doing a few projects outside and need some advice about repairing a bent cattle grid. I have a tubular cattle grid, split in half with 7 tubes each side. What happened is - Calor Gas driver drove his lorry over the centre of the grid. This caused the pipes to bent down by about an inch, as they have no support there. One side of the grid is now a good inch off the concrete. He only went half way so only the first section is bent. This looks and sounds terrible each time you drive over it.

I want to straighten the tubes out again. My idea was to put the grid upside down, put some weight on it and hit each tube with a sledge hammer. I'm not convinced this will work tbh so does anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[MrA.G.]

I would be taking the sections out, flipping them over and putting a 2inch packer between the ground and the grid at one end. Then run a heavy tractor/ plant/ whatever you have on it to bend it back the other way. Adjust the packer thickness to get it straight. Longer term you wound better with a few extra supports across the grid.

 

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

Hi guys, I'm doing a few projects outside and need some advice about repairing a bent cattle grid. I have a tubular cattle grid, split in half with 7 tubes each side. What happened is - Calor Gas driver drove his lorry over the centre of the grid. This caused the pipes to bent down by about an inch, as they have no support there. One side of the grid is now a good inch off the concrete. He only went half way so only the first section is bent. This looks and sounds terrible each time you drive over it.

I want to straighten the tubes out again. My idea was to put the grid upside down, put some weight on it and hit each tube with a sledge hammer. I'm not convinced this will work tbh so does anyone have any other suggestions?

Lift the grid out, turn it upside down, put it back in and phone calor.

 

[H200GT]

The tubular grids are frankly rubbish.

I have made 2 with old narrow gauge railway track, good as the day they were made and get regular heavy / hgv use. First one must be almost 20 year old now, second around half its age.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

The tubular grids are frankly rubbish.

I have made 2 with old narrow gauge railway track, good as the day they were made and get regular heavy / hgv use. First one must be almost 20 year old now, second around half its age.

ive seen sheep walk over them there great but have a flat surface all be it moorland sheep!

 

[Mur Huwcun]

ive seen sheep walk over them there great but have a flat surface all be it moorland sheep!

Our sheep just walk over a box section one at lodge park next door aswell!!!

 

[oldoaktree]

You’d be better off starting over you will struggle to fix the cattle grid down and every time somebody drives over it it will move which will loosen the fixings and then start to eat at the supports . If it’s bent once it’s going to bend again. It’s not the calor gas drivers fault your grid wasn’t safe to drive over without it bending.

 

[H200GT]

ive seen sheep walk over them there great but have a flat surface all be it moorland sheep!

Its not an issue with ours although I have seen it with standard gauge railway track.

I used narrow gauge steel, its wider on the bottom surface that fits onto the the sleeper than the side the train wheels run on, placed this way round its not been a problem for us. From memory its only around 2" at the top on a narrow gauge.